1.The drawing of a man in a circle of mirrors- This is a self portrait Da Vinci created, and below the portrait it is signed with: Leonardus Vincius, along with a notation: "portrait of himself in fairly old age". This is an extremely old yet famous painting which it is rarely exhibited in public, and is stored away from air and light, that could easily damage this ancient work of art. Unlike most of Da Vinci's art, this piece seems to hold a more psychological/internal meaning.

2.Spilled paints- When making portraits or other elaborate paintings, Leonardo would often mix paints and different chemicals together to experiment and see if he could find any ways to better his artwork.

3.Human Skeletons- Da Vinci also studied human anatomy, and made several autopsies and dissections to further expand his knowledge of the human body and its workings.

4.Cat and sketch of bird- When he was not busy with his anatomy studies, Da Vinci would often study the movements of animals. Some of the animals he studied include: Cats, horses and particularly birds, in which he was most curious on how they preformed the act of flight.

5.Buildings- Leonardo was often called upon to work as an architecture, and he designed a handful of large buildings and monuments for Italy.

6.Battle Map- Apart from designing many different maps, Da Vinci was called on many times by rulers, colonels, and military officials to help plan strategies against the enemy. Leonardo not only helped plan defense and attacks, but designed many of the very weapons and moving assault vehicles they used in the war. Leonardo designed the first tanks, along with their engines and movement capabilities.

"To lose ones sight is to be deprived of the beauty of the universe, and to be like a man buried alive in a tomb Do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the entire world?"...

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Mona Lisa or La Giaconda it is probably one of the most well known works of art in the world. It is one of the most copied, photographed, and reprinted works of art. I myself have her as a screensaver in my laptop. Throughout the years, there have been all types of theories about her in the Mona Lisa painting. It seems that most of these theorizers not only have a hypothesis about her smile or name, but believe that no one else's hypothesis is right except for theirs. The theories about Mona Lisa run from the most theoretical and nonscientific to the most scholarly and technical. The measurements of the portrait are thirty inches by twenty inches. The painting is in a humidified concrete box, protected by a triple bulletproof glass in the museum of Louvre in Paris. It is estimated that over six million tourists a year see her in Louvre. It would surprise many people to know that the Mona Lisa was once regarded as nothing special (Clark, 1999, pp 210-220).
As mentioned before many theories on the identity of the woman in the painting and why Leonardo painted her vary. Some researchers go as far as to claim that the living model never existed, but that Leonardo painted an ideal woman or his self-portrait in the body of a woman. However, the majority of the art historians agree that the Vasari’s story is one of the most credible and the exact account of the Mona Lisa’s...

...LeonardoDaVinci is one of the greatest and most ingenious men that history has produced. His contributions in the areas of art, science, and humanity are still among the most important that a single man has put forth, definitely making his a life worth knowing. DaVinci, born on April 15, 1452, is credited with being a master painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist. He was born an illegitimate child to Catherina, a peasant girl. His father was Ser Piero daVinci, a public notary for the city
of Florence, Italy. For the first four years of his life he lived with his mother in the small village of Vinci, directly outside of the great center of the Renaissance, Florence. Catherina was a poor woman, with possible artistic talent, the genetic basis of Leonardo's
talents. Upon the realization of Leonardo's potential, his father took the boy to live with him and his wife in Florence (Why did). This was the start of the boy's education and his quest for knowledge. Leonardo was recognized by many to be a "Renaissance child" because of his many talents. As a boy, Leonardo was described as being handsome, strong, and agile. He had keen powers of observation, an imagination, and the ability to detach himself from the world around him. At an early age Leonardo became interested in subjects such as botany,...

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Biographical Information
■ Birth name: Leonardo di ser Piero daVinci
■ Born: April 15, 1452 (Vinci, Republic of Florence present-day Italy)
■ Died May 2, 1519 (Age 67 Amboise, Kingdom of France)
■ Nationality: Italian
■ Leonardo di ser Piero daVinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer.
■ LeonardodaVinci was the love child of a landowner and a peasant girl. Raised by his father, he began apprenticing at the age of 14 under the artist Verrocchio. Within six years, he was a master artist and began taking commissions from wealthy clients. His best-known works are two of the most famous paintings of all time, the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. His scientific inquiries fill 13,000 pages, ranging from anatomy to war machines.
Important Works
■ Leonardo's most well-known painting, arguably the most famous painting in the world, the Mona Lisa, was a privately commissioned work and was completed sometime between 1505 and 1507.
■ He began working on it in 1495, and finished Last Supper in 1498. This is worth nothing, as Leonardo was known with a marked trend to leave projects...

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LeonardodaVinciLeonardodaVinci was born on April 15 1452 in Vinci, his father was a wealthy notary, Ser Piero, and his mother was a peasant girl named Caterina. After his birth his father took control of him while his mother left to marry another man. His father eventually remarries and between the two parents gives Leonardo seven brothers and sisters. In 1469 at the age of 15 he began an apprenticeship in the famous studio of Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence. Leonardo was responsible for part of the altarpieces, some large painted panels, and sculptures in bronze and marble. He drew an angel in one of Verrochio’s paintings so impressive that Verrichio vows never to paint again he later left the studio in 1477.
In 1472 Leonardo joined the painters’ guild which marked the end of his apprenticeship, after only three years of training, the following year Leonardo painted the first of his famous works, La Valle dell’Arno. In 1492 Leonardo headed to Milan where he entered the service of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, with the help of a letter boasting his talents for building bridges, ships, cannons, catapults and other war machines. Leonardo found himself acting as the duke’s military engineer, designing weapons and fortifications and devising strategies for...

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LeonardoDaVinci was born on April 15, 1452. His father was a wealthy notary, named Piero Fruosino di Antonio daVinci. His mother Caterina was a sixteen year old peasant girl. Leonardo had no surname when born and took the name DaVinci meaning from Vinci, the small town in Florence where he was born. Throughout his life Leonardo faced many hardships. From 1457 he lived in the household of his father, grandparents and uncle, Francesco, in the small town of Vinci, after living the first five years of his life with his mother in Anchiano. According to European Authors Leonardo’s father had another son in 1475, with the birth of Piero’s son Leonardo was excluded from the family. Living during the Renaissance time Leonardo went on to be one of the most influential artists in history with works such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Not only was Leonardo one of the icons in art history, he has also impacted many fields in science such as astronomy and technological ingenuity. According to Art through the Ages, Leonardo is “the most diversely talented person ever to have lived”. While that claim cannot be proven,...

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123456 | LeonardodaVinci was inarguably a great mind of the Renaissance, a period of European civilisation where revival of classical learning and wisdom took place after a long period of cultural decline and stagnation. He was an Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose talents reflected the diversity of achievements of the Italian Renaissance. With his outstanding versatility, Leonardo has often been described as a universal genius of the Renaissance, the fame that has remained undimmed as a result of his great desire for knowledge. His Last Supper and Mona Lisa are among the most widely popular and influential paintings of the Renaissance, and they gained worldwide fame only after his death. However, he was far from prolific, as only 17 of his paintings, many of which remained unfinished, have been identified. In addition to art, Leonardo studied a wide range of scientific topics including anatomy, geology, botany, hydraulics and aerodynamics. His science was expressed through art, and his drawings and diagrammes show how he understood the world. Leonardo used an observational approach to study science. In this approach, he considered his eyes to be his main avenue to knowledge, and sight alone could convey the facts of experience immediately and correctly....

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Leonardo has been called a genius and the archetypal Renaissance man. His talents extended far beyond his artistic works. Like many leaders of Renaissance humanism, he did not see a divide between science and art. His observations and inventions were recorded in 13,000 pages of notes and drawings, including designs for flying machines (some 400 years before the Wright brothers’ first success), plant studies, war machinery, anatomy and architecture. His ideas were mainly theoretical explanations, laid out in exacting detail, but they were rarely...

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What do we consider a genius, and who? When studying different definition, and with prior knowledge from speaking to psychiatrists and other mood evaluators, I now have a good sense of the term genius. A genius is someone who has incredible intellectual ability, as well as creative. One who is not only mentally progressed, but emotionally and creatively as well. Mastering a number of different and diverse skills and having all sorts of knowledge would qualify you.
LeonardoDaVinci, is thought to be one of the most intelligent people to ever have lived. Considered a Renaissance man, DaVinci was not only an accomplished scholar but also a painter, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, anatomist, cartographer, inventor, geologist, botanist, and writer. DaVinci mastered a number of difficult skills, and had knowledge nobody else had found, especially for his time. His advancements, inventions and art were beyond what you would call good, they were genius.
Born April 15th, 1452 out of wedlock, his father Piero and Caterina daVinci were considered peasants. He was raised by his father, some believed he was not worthy of an education due to this. However, DaVinci was advanced at the fine arts by age 15 and began his studies in a studio...